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[PaintDragon]

So... I've had this idea for a while where if I have a bunch of animals I want to get rid of but don't want to butcher them, I could just cram them all in a cage to maybe sell to the elves or something. I'm doing some lazy selective breeding, so it would most likely be dogs that are red in all attributes (I'm using Dwarf Therapist to see). However, when I go to cage them, I don't know how to find them in the list. They're all listed as "Stray Dog/Puppy" and I can't tell them apart. Is there some feature I'm missing?

[PatrikLundell]

No, the DT-DF connection is hard to make in that case. You can, however, use the DFHack Nickname feature to nickname every dog and the name should show up in DT as well. For some reason, nicknaming in DT doesn't feed back into DF in a way that's visible in DF (or at least didn't a number of years ago).

[Moeteru]

The way I've found to do this using only Dwarf Therapist is like this:

• Put all the animals of the type you're interested in in a cage.
• In Dwarf Therapist, mark all the ones you don't want in the cage to be butchered.
• Each time a dwarf releases an animal from the cage, toggle its "slaughter" setting off before it gets dragged to the workshop.

I'd be interested to know if you manage to get any results from selective breeding of attributes.

[Schmaven]

I found that nick-naming them in DT, even though it does not appear in DF, still allows filtering by name to work for identifying specific animals.  You just search for their invisible nickname in this case.

[Uthimienure]

How does the DFHack Nickname feature work?  I can't figure it out.

[PatrikLundell]

How does the DFHack Nickname feature work?  I can't figure it out.

Select unit with 'v'. ctrl-shift-n to bring up the naming dialog (which also works on a lot of other things, including some where DF now has added naming, but the implementation is slightly different, as the DF one compresses what you type, while the DFHack doesn't, which makes a difference when displayed).

[Uthimienure]

How does the DFHack Nickname feature work?  I can't figure it out.

Select unit with 'v'. ctrl-shift-n to bring up the naming dialog (which also works on a lot of other things, including some where DF now has added naming, but the implementation is slightly different, as the DF one compresses what you type, while the DFHack doesn't, which makes a difference when displayed).

I had searched the online documentation until nearly pulling out my hair... https://docs.dfhack.org/en/0.47.04-r3/index.html
And looked through DFHack using "ls" too.

Thanks!  (Although I still can't find this online, and I'm wondering how many other cool features I'm missing).
Is there anywhere a list of everything Hack can do?

[Thorfinn]

How does the DFHack Nickname feature work?  I can't figure it out.

Select unit with 'v'. ctrl-shift-n to bring up the naming dialog (which also works on a lot of other things, including some where DF now has added naming, but the implementation is slightly different, as the DF one compresses what you type, while the DFHack doesn't, which makes a difference when displayed).

I was wondering why I was seeing the names were sometimes with spaces and sometimes not. I figured it was just something I did wrong, rather than two different means of naming them.